Category: long story short

CNN Top Stories: U.S. seeks extradition of one-eyed, hook-handed cleric –That’s going to be so hard to find! I think we should say either one-eyed or hook-handed or both.

Young voters are being courted nationwide Scripps Howard 7/20/04 (My italics) “Both parties are trying to capture the nation’s largest voting bloc. Comprised of about 43 million people between the ages of 18 and 30…” I hear the voting bloc between the ages of 18 and 31 is slightly larger. One of the smallest is…

‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ Making GOP Nervous Article “…Republican operative Joe Gaylord said. ‘It’s a problem only if a lot of people see it.’” -DKo: If the projections below are anywhere near accurate, the Republican “problem” will be immense. “…through last weekend, theaters already have sold an estimated 12 million tickets to ‘Fahrenheit 9/11.’ “A Gallup survey…

Bush: U.S. Looking Into Whether Iran Involved In 9/11 Article [My italics] The commission has found more al Qaeda contacts with Iran than with Iraq, officials said. [But] White House spokesman Scott McClellan said there was “no evidence that there was any official involvement between Iran and the Sept. 11 attacks.”…. Bush noted McLaughlin had…

NASA Denies Funding for Key Satellite, Washington Post. 7/19/04 NASA is allowing a highly successful satellite to fall out of Earth’s orbit by refusing to fund it….NASA…did not order a planned firing of its rockets…to hold the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite in orbit….Without periodic assists from its thrusters, atmospheric drag will send the satellite’s…

Count the I’s in this one.